Uraidla, South Australia
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| Uraidla South Australia |
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 Uraidla Township |
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| Population: | 442 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
| Established: | 1880s | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 5142 | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 17 km (11 mi) from Adelaide | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | Adelaide Hills Council | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Heysen | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Mayo | ||||||||||||
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Uraidla is a small town in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia, Australia.
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[edit] History
Once the home of the Peramangk Aboriginal people, European settlement commenced in the mid nineteenth century, a primary school opened in 1871 and the town formally established in the 1880s.
[edit] Aboriginal Origins
The name Uraidla is derived from local Aboriginal origins. The neighbouring Kaurna people (from the Adelaide plains) had a tale about an ancestral giant who fell in battle and whose body formed part of the Mount Lofty Ranges, with his ears forming Mount Lofty and Mount Bonython. The name Yurrēidla may derive from the Kaurna words yurre (ear) and the suffix denotaing location, -illa (Teichelmann & Schurmann 1840 [1]). This was later corrupted to Uraidla and adopted as the name of the town.
[edit] Industries
Uraidla and the surrounding area is a well-known agricultural district with apple and cherry orchards, along with vineyards producing many local wine vintages.
[edit] References
- ^ Teichelmann, C. G.; C. W. Schürmann [1840] (1982). Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary and phraseology of the Aboriginal language of South Australia spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide. Tjintu Books. ISBN 0-9593616-0-X.
[edit] External links
- Uraidla and Summertown Horticultural Show
- Uraidla Primary School
- Adelaide Hills Council
- Australian Aboriginal Tribal Database
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| Towns and Localities of the Adelaide Hills Council | |
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Aldgate | Ashton | Balhannah | Basket Range | Birdwood | Bradbury | Bridgewater | Carey Gully | Castambul | Chain of Ponds | Charleston | Cherryville | Crafers West | Crafers | Cudlee Creek | Dorset Vale | Eagle on the Hill | Forest Range | Forreston | Gumeracha | Heathfield | Houghton | Inglewood | Inverbrackie | Ironbank | Kersbrook | Lenswood | Lobethal | Longwood | Marble Hill | Montacute | Mount Lofty | Mount Torrens | Mylor | Norton Summit | Oakbank | Paracombe | Piccadilly | Scott Creek | Stirling | Summertown | Upper Hermitage | Upper Sturt | Uraidla | Verdun | Woodside |
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